BWW Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES: AN ONLINE ADVENTURE, Les Enfants Terribles
by Fiona Scott - Feb 24, 2021
Have you ever found yourself reading or watching one of Sherlock Holmes' adventures and wanted to get involved in the action itself? Now you can. Les Enfants Terribles have taken their expertise in crafting immersive theatre to the world wide web in Sherlock Holmes: An Online Adventure, directed by Oliver Lansley and James Seager.
PETER PAN GOES WRONG Flies Into Coventry
by Stephi Wild - Jan 29, 2020
Following the incredible success of The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, multi-award winners Mischief Theatre are back at the Belgrade this February with another side-splitting stage show where everything that can goes wrong, does.
Photo Flash: Rehearsals Have Begun For OH NO IT ISN'T
by Stephi Wild - Nov 9, 2019
Rehearsals have begun for Ha-Hum-Ah Theatre's co-production with into Bodmin of Luke Adamson's Oh No It Isn't!. Playing at the Old Library in Bodmin from November 27th Oh No It Isn't! is a tender and hilarious love letter to the world of theatre through the eyes of two dysfunctional pantomime dames. The cast includes James Marlowe and John Gregor with direction by Ben Kernow.
BWW Review: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, Southwark Playhouse
by Cindy Marcolina - May 18, 2019
F. Scott Fitzgerald was 26 years old when his short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was first published in Collier's Magazine. It tells the tale of Benjamin, a man born in unusual circumstances. Instead of growing old, he becomes younger, trapped into a body he doesn't recognise as his own and forced to experience his life backwards.
Cressida Bonas to star in Jermyn Street Theatre's THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN
by Stephi Wild - Jan 25, 2018
Proud Haddock's The Dog Beneath The Skin will star Pete Ashmore (Arms and the Man, Watford Palace Theatre; Private Lives, Mercury Theatre; Treasure Island, Birmingham Rep) as Alan Norman and Cressida Bonas (Mrs Orwell, Old Red Lion Theatre, Southwark Playhouse; An Evening With Lucian Freud, Leicester Square Theatre; The Great Gatsby, Leicester Square Theatre) as The Dog.
BWW Review: TOUCH, Soho Theatre
by Marianka Swain - Jul 14, 2017
Neat freaks beware: Touch is your ultimate nightmare. This latest offering from DryWrite, the company that launched the now stratospheric Fleabag, centres on another woman with a chaotic personal life - this time, mirrored by the symphony of filth that is her cramped bedsit.
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Comedy Theatre
by Victoria Beal - Feb 27, 2017
The Play That Goes Wrong starts subtly with a member of the audience brought up on stage to lend a hand to two hopeless stage technicians, Trevor and Annie. They are setting the stage for a performance of Murder at Haversham Manor by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society. With fireplace mantles falling down and doors that won't close (and then won't open), we are introduced to the slapstick nature of the show.
Rehersals About to Commence in Melbourne for THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 18, 2017
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.
Cast Announced for THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
by BWW News Desk - Nov 17, 2016
With a host of awards for Best New Comedy to its credit, The Play That Goes Wrong actually appears to be doing something right for West End audiences, and now audiences here will get their chance to witness theatrical disaster on stages across Australia when this hilarious masterpiece stumbles into town.
BWW Review: WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT, St James Theatre, 1 September 2016
by Marianka Swain - Sep 2, 2016
The show must go on. And on. Even for the understudies trapped in theatrical purgatory, forever waiting for their chance to perform. So far so Beckett? That's the premise of American playwright Dave Hanson's affectionate absurdist parody, offering a lighter take on the master's existential philosophising.
NO MAN'S LAND Leads September's Top 10 New London Shows
by Marianka Swain - Aug 30, 2016
The capital is never short of theatre temptations, whether big West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From two theatrical titans taking on Pinter to the RSC in London and an unusual dining experience, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews...